Oil-heater



G. F. REZNOR.

OIL HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18.1919.

Pat nted Oct. 4, 1921 GEORGE E. REZNOR, F

MERCER,- PENNSYLVANIA.

OIL-HEATER.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

" Applicatlon filed July 18, 1919. Serial No. 311,805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, GEORGE F Rnznon, a citizen of the United States,residing at Meroer, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania,have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil-Heaters, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to oil heaters and the objects thereof are toprovide an oil heater having means whereby the burners may be easilyblown out without moving them from their normal positions; to provide anoil heater of the reflector type into which the oil receptacle with theburners thereon may be inserted and from which they may be removedpartially or entirely, through an opening in the back of the casing, theburners without the chimneys passing through holes in the reflector; toprovide safety means whereby the oil receptacle may be supplied with oilWithout extinguishing the burners. Other objects ap pear hereinafter.

On the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a stoveembodying my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section on theline IL-II of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a side elevation with theoil-receptacle partially withdrawn.

On the drawing, 1 designates the sheetmetal casing supported by the legs2. The casing has the front 3, the back 4, the ends 5 and 6, the top 7,and the bottom flanges 8.

The front 3 has the large rectangular opening 9, surrounded by the topstrip 10, the bottom strip 11, and the lateral flanges 12. From thelower edge of the strip 10 there is a sheet-metal flame plate 13extending nearly from side to side of the casing and toward the back.This plate is slightly inclined rearwardly and downwardly. From the topedge of the strip 11' is a bright horizontally-corrugated sheet-metalreflector 14-curving rearwardly and upwardly approximately to the rearedge of the flameplate. The lateral edges of the reflector have securedthereto the end reflector sheets 15, only one shown, which reachforwardly to the flanges 12 and upwardly near the plate 13.

Resting on the of horizontal strips of sheet-metal, is the rectangularoil receptacle 16. The oil-receptacle is slidableinto and out of theeasing 1 between the guides comprising the said bottom flange 8 and thehorizontal bottom flanges 8, composed 'is absent in order that strips 17secured to the ends Of just above the said receptacle. "The back of thecasing is provided with the door 18 lunged on the horizontal rod 19 justbelow the rear end of the receptacle and swingable upwardly to meet thelock on the upper fixed sectionof the back and covering an opening forthe removal and insertion of the Oll receptacle. 20 is a removable capon the top of the receptacle and near the rear side of the same for thepurpose of permitting the filling of the receptacle with oil and ofclosing the same after the receptacle is so filled.

On the top of the oil-receptacle is a plurality of burners 21 extendingthrough holes 22 in the reflector 14, the tops of the burners extendingsufliciently forward to allow the glass chimneys 23 to stand in front ofthe reflector 14. The holes 22 are large enough to pass the burners withthe chimneys on. They may be made so small that the chimney holders 24as well as the chimneys must be removed before the oil-receptacle can beremoved. The chimneys normally stand with their tops sufliciently belowthe flame plate 13 to permit them to be lifted above the tops of thechimney-holders 24, or to permit the latter with the chimneys thereon tobe lifted above the tops of the wick-holders 25, whereupon the chimneysor the chimneys with their holders, may be removed from the heater, andthe oil receptacle may then be moved wholly or partially through theback of the casing. The combined reflector and guard 26 is secured tothe top of the oil receptacle. It is preferably composed of sheetmetalreflecting material like the reflector 14. It stands just back of theburners and parallel with thereflector 14, and permits the refilling ofthe receptacle with oil without danger of any inflammable gas reachingthe burners. It also reflects to the front of the burners much of theheat and light that passes rearwardly through the holes.

. In order that the lamps may be blown out by driving air from chimneys,I provide a deflector 27 for each chimney. Each deflector is secured tothe flame plate 13 and comprises a curved strip of sheet-metal suspendedclose to the chimney-tops and embracing more or less of the same exceptat the front, where the deflector air may be blown the chimneys andbeneath over the tops of The deflectors 27 turn the the flame-plate.

Patented o t. 4, 1921.

the casing the mouth down the air down the chimneys and cause the lampsto be extinguished. I have shown thedefiectors to be semi-cylindricalbut their shape may evidently be changed without changing 7 theirprinciple of operation.

I claim: In an oil heater, a casing having an open front, a sheet-metalreflector extending upwardly and rearwardly opposite the opening in thefront and having a hole therein,

'an oil-receptacle slidable into the casing from the back thereof andcarrying a burner screen between the filler-cap and the open-v in t V%ignedat Mercer, Pa., this 7 day of July, 1919.

G. F. REZNOR.

